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AMBOLD DITCH (FARRIS)
Structure dossier · WDID 3000501 · 1 · ANIMAS RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:07 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Where it sits
Location as DWR records it. Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.
Which of its rights are out of priority?
Not computable for this structure: this structure is not on the modelled flow network, so no reference gage can honestly stand in for it.
Where it sits in line
Priority 1963-07-12 — 601st most senior of the 2277 structures with decreed rights in this water districtDWR's administrative subdivision of a river basin; the unit calls are usually stated in..
Under prior appropriationColorado's rule for sharing water: first in time, first in right. Age decides, not proximity or need., everything ahead of it in this line is satisfied in full before it receives any water. Immediately ahead: MCLAUGHLIN WELL (1963-06-21). Immediately behind: BARKER WELL NO 1 (1963-08-21).
Decreed rights (1)
| Admin noDWR's numeric encoding of a water right's seniority. Smaller is more senior; the integer part counts days from 1849-12-31 to the date that ranks the right. | AppropriatedWhen water was first put to beneficial use. It sets seniority unless a prior adjudication date is later. | AdjudicatedWhen the water court confirmed the right. A use decreed in 1975 was not a decreed use in 1955, however old the appropriation is. | AbsoluteA right actually put to use, as opposed to conditional -- a placeholder for a use not yet made. | ConditionalA right reserving a place in line for a use not yet made; it must be diligently pursued or it lapses. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41465.0 | 1963-07-12 | 1966-03-21 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 65-79 |
Recorded use (last 12 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 24 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1975, came in at 8 AF — 33% of that, and 5th lowest of the 12 years with a recorded volume.
| Year | Diverted (AFA volume: one acre covered a foot deep, about 326,000 gallons -- roughly a suburban household's outdoor use for a year.) | Compared with its own record | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | 0 | 1st lowest of 12 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1931 | 223 | 9th lowest of 12 · 929% of median | 137 | 1.0 |
| 1943 | 0 | 1st lowest of 12 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1944 | 284 | 10th lowest of 12 · 1183% of median | 144 | 1.0 |
| 1955 | 0 | 1st lowest of 12 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1956 | 295 | 11th lowest of 12 · 1229% of median | 176 | 1.0 |
| 1957 | 196 | 8th lowest of 12 · 817% of median | 101 | 1.0 |
| 1959 | 0 | 1st lowest of 12 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1960 | 1,041 | 12th lowest of 12 · 4338% of median | 124 | 6.0 |
| 1973 | 18 | 6th lowest of 12 · 75% of median | 25 | 0.5 |
| 1974 | 30 | 7th lowest of 12 · 125% of median | 41 | 0.5 |
| 1975 | 8 | 5th lowest of 12 · 33% of median | 9 | 0.5 |
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